Sports quiz of the week: Chelsea, Cricket World Cup and Champions League

Nicolas Jackson, Angelo Mathews and Pepe. Composite: Darren Walsh, Sajjad Hussain and Estela Silva/Getty Images, AFP/Getty Images and EPA.

1. Tottenham lost 4-1 to Chelsea on Monday night in one of the best Premier League games for a long time. How many of the 11 Spurs players who started the match were still on the pitch at full time?

   1. Four

   2. Five

   3. Six

   4. Seven

2. 

   The match lasted 111 minutes and 19 seconds (90 minutes plus more than 21 minutes of injury time). For how much of that time was the ball in play?

   1. 43%

   2. 50%

   3. 55%

   4. 68%

3. Laura Enever has set a new world record from a height of 13.3 metres. What was she doing?

   1. Pole vaulting

   2. Surfing

   3. Trampolining

   4. Diving

4. 

   Angelo Mathews walked out to bat for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh at the Cricket World Cup. What happened next?

   1. He lasted one over, hitting five sixes before being bowled in the sixth ball

   2. He only faced one ball – and was dismissed for hitting it twice

   3. He was dismissed before he faced a single ball

   4. He walked out to the crease, vomited and was replaced by a teammate

5. Pepe scored for Porto against Antwerp this week to become the oldest goalscorer in Champions League history, breaking a record set by which player in 2014?

   1. Raúl

   2. Francesco Totti

   3. Paolo Maldini

   4. Laurent Blanc

6. 

   Emma Hayes is leaving Chelsea at the end of the season. She wrote a book about football management in which she aimed to "demystify the role of leader and give my honest insight into managing human beings". What is it called?

   1. The Chimp Paradox

   2. Hayes Of Sunshine

   3. Kill The Unicorn

   4. Hayes To Say I Told You So

7. Fenerbahce lost two matches this week. Why is that surprising?

   1. They had won their previous 19

   2. They were awarded two penalties in both games

   3. They played against nine men on Saturday and against eight in midweek

   4. They lost to two clubs that had never beaten them before

8. 

   Who won the WTA finals to finish the year as the world No 1?

   1. Iga Swiatek

   2. Aryna Sabalenka

   3. Coco Gauff

   4. Ons Jabeur

9. Northern Irish football club Coleraine knocked their local rivals Ballymena out of the League Cup this week. What was unusual about the tie?

   1. The Coleraine manager was sacked at half-time – after being spotted signing a deal to join Ballymena next season

   2. It featured 45 penalties

   3. The half-time break lasted an hour so the TV broadcaster could show the news during the interval

   4. Coleraine won in extra time – even though the rules say ties should go straight to penalties if it’s a draw after 90 minutes

10. 

    Australia are world champions in rugby league, but which team beat them 30-0 at the weekend – handing the Kangaroos the worst defeat of their history?

    1. Samoa

    2. England

    3. Tonga

    4. New Zealand

11. Arsenal’s Under-18s were meant to play Brighton last weekend. Why did the game not take place?

    1. Jack Wilshere, the Arsenal manager, was booked to do punditry so postponed the game

    2. Mikel Arteta insisted he felt “too sick” for any of Arsenal’s team to play

    3. The team bus took a wrong turn and they did not reach Brighton on time

    4. The Brighton pitch was closed as the council had put on a fireworks display

12. 

    Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury are likely to fight for their heavyweight world titles in February. Both boxers are coming off controversial victories. Fury was lucky to get a split decision against MMA fighter Francis Ngannou. Who did Usyk beat in his most recent fight?

    1. Daniel Dubois

    2. Anthony Joshua

    3. Derek Chisora

    4. Joe Joyce

13. Who is the only player to have hit a double century at the Cricket World Cup in India so far?

    1. Glenn Maxwell

    2. Ben Stokes

    3. Virat Kohli

    4. David Warner

14. 

    Lewis Ferguson scored Bologna’s winner against Lazio at the weekend, taking his tally to 10 goals in Serie A. Which other Scottish player has scored as many goals in the Italian top flight?

    1. Denis Law

    2. Joe Jordan

    3. Graeme Souness

    4. Josh Doig

15. Which player has scored 44% of his team’s goals in the Premier League this season?

    1. Dominic Solanke

    2. Mo Salah

    3. Hwang hee-chan

    4. Erling Haaland

Solutions

1:A - Tottenham made five substitutes and had two players sent off. , 2:A - The two teams managed to squeeze five goals, five disallowed goals, eight yellow cards, two red cards and 32 fouls in just 48 minutes of action., 3:B - The Australian surfer tamed a 43.6ft wave in Hawaii., 4:C - Mathews was “timed out” as he was not ready bat within two minutes of the previous wicket falling, making him the first player to be dismissed this way in 146 years of international cricket. He had a broken helmet so waited for a replacement, but it took too long and Bangladesh appealed to the umpire for a time out. Mathews walked off and threw his helmet to the ground in disgust. Sri Lanka lost the match and were knocked out of the World Cup., 5:B - Pepe is the first 40-year-old to score in the competition. The last time he scored in the Champions League, he was in his 20s., 6:C - Hayes is expected to take over as the manager of the US women's team., 7:A - Fenerbahce won 19 matches in a row before losing to Trabzonspor on Saturday and Ludogorets on Thursday., 8:A - Swiatek won her last 11 matches of the season to overtake Aryna Sabalenka and move back to the top of the women’s rankings. , 9:B - Coleraine scored a penalty in normal time in a 1-1 draw before winning the shootout 18-17. “Both sets of players and staff were drained mentally at the end of it,” said Coleraine manager Oran Kearney. “It was a crazy night.” , 10:D - It was a great day for New Zealand and it was also a great day for England, who beat Tonga in Leeds to wrap up a 3-0 series win., 11:C - They reportedly ended up near Bournemouth, 95 miles away, so had to call the game off. , 12:A - Dubois floored Usyk in the fight but the referee judged the punch to be a low blow. Dubois was furious afterwards, saying: "I should be a world champion right now. It wasn’t justice. It needs to be called out and go further than living this lie. They just cheated out there.", 13:A - Maxwell missed Australia’s match with England after injuring himself by falling off a golf buggy. He returned for to face Afghanistan and hit 201 not out from just 128 balls., 14:A - Law scored 10 goals for Torino in 1961-62. Law thought the team would be better than it was. As he put it years later: “Everything was great about Italy, bar the football.” , 15:A - Lyle Foster has been just as important for Luton – he has either scored or set up 63% of their goals.

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

2. 2 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

3. 3 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

4. 4 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

5. 5 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

6. 6 and above.

   Not bad. Not bad at all.

7. 7 and above.

   Well played. Have a great weekend.

8. 8 and above.

   Well played. Have a great weekend.

9. 9 and above.

   Well played. Have a great weekend.

10. 10 and above.

    Well played. Have a great weekend.

11. 11 and above.

    Well played. Have a great weekend.

12. 12 and above.

    Well played. Have a great weekend.

13. 13 and above.

    Well played. Have a great weekend.

14. 14 and above.

    Well played. Have a great weekend.

15. 0 and above.

    Ah well. Better luck next week.

16. 15 and above.

    Perfection! Well played. Have a great weekend.